• Start game.

  • Character creation.

  • Disappointed that goblin isn’t an option.

  • Disappointed that class is linked to race but whatever it’s an old game.

  • Can’t decide between making my character a half-elf druid avenger or gnome thief.

  • Settle on druid avenger because playing as an eco-terrorist sounds fun.

  • Become disappointed that druids can only be true neutral.

  • I make my characters skin green and give them the old lady voice because fuck you game I wanted to make a goblin.

  • Walk into the Inn.

  • Insult every noble visiting the inn.

  • Leave.

  • Enter a house and get jumped by an assassin.

  • Die.

  • Lmao this game rules.

  • notceps [he/him]English
    11•11 months ago

    Eh they both have pacing issues imo BG1 should went to Baldurs Gate after the mines, the whole bandits in the cloakwood thing drags quite a bit and I think it’s really telling that almost everyone skips that part of the story when talking about BG1. If you cut out that chapter and let the big city breathe a little bit more it would’ve been perfect. BG2 has a way too long intro dungeon that’s true but I don’t think that being in the big city immediately is wrong because it picks up from where BG1 kinda ends so to me it is more

    Intro Area->Small Forest->Small towns->Big City->Intro Dungeon->Big City->Underdark->Hell

    Also yeah I feel the same about 3 because I hear stuff like 200h playthrough and I just go “nope”

    • huf [he/him]English
      12•11 months ago

      fair, the spider forest shit was annoyingly long. i didnt mind the bandit camp bits. i liked the cloakwood mines too, really. but the fucking spider and ettercap infested forest you have to wade through to get to it… ugh.

      but i also really enjoyed just exploring the mostly empty bits on the side, which were 100% plot-irrelevant little universes in themselves with just a few little quests.

      • notceps [he/him]English
        7•11 months ago

        I enjoy the side adventures but sometimes you want to get through it faster and that part always drags for me even just splitting it into Bandit Camp->BG->Mine would be much better for pacing imo.

    • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]English
      6•11 months ago

      Also yeah I feel the same about 3 because I hear stuff like 200h playthrough and I just go “nope”

      Ehhh you might get to 200 hours if you take your time and check everything. My playthrough looks like it’ll be sub 100 hours